According to the court's order, reviewed by dna, Pachauri has been permitted to travel between August 21 and September 1.
A Delhi metropolitan court on Wednesday allowed TERI director-general RK Pachauri, who is accused of sexual harassment by a 29-year old woman employee, to travel to China and Japan later this month in his capacity as the organiation's head and as a climate scientist.
According to the court's order, reviewed by dna, Pachauri has been permitted to travel between August 21 and September 1. In August, he has been invited to attend a 'strategic dialogue' in China on the upcoming Climate Change conference to be held in Paris. Thereafter, he will be meeting Japan's former environment minister Dr Wakako Hiranaka, who also happens to be a member of TERI's governing council and 'other dignitaries', the order said.
This is the first time that Pachauri has been allowed to travel abroad in his capacity as the DG of TERI since he was charged with sexual harassment. The climate scientist had resigned from the post of chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after the accusations against him surfaced. Besides the IPCC, he also resigned as the member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change.
Earlier, he was allowed to travel abroad between June 29 and July 9 to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law subject to certain conditions. On the court's orders, Pachauri has to furnish two local sureties of Rs 2 lakh each along with an undertaking that he has to make himself available to the investigating officer of Delhi police as is needed. Also, he has to intimate the Indian High Commission of India in China and Japan through written communication, after he arrives there.
During Wednesday's court hearing, the investigating officer of Delhi police as well as the counsel of the complainant opposed Pachauri's application. The investigation officer said that she opposed the application on grounds that he had failed to give satisfactory answers and also because he is required regularly for further examination/interrogation. But, the metropolitan magistrate Chauhan did not heed to either request. Chauhan said that the investigating officer has not specified on which dates Pachauri would be investigated and that made himself available for interrogation at length.
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